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Severe budget cuts (for example, the kind required by the sequester), also known as “austerity” policies—expected to be implemented in 119 countries across the globe in 2013—are the wrong solution to the world’s economic crisis, concludes a new paper released by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and the South Centre.
A Connecticut Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty on Tuesday to selling 1.7 kilograms of methamphetamine.Monsignor Kevin Wallin, the 61-year-old former pastor of St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport, was arrested on Jan. 3, accused of receiving shipments of crystal meth from a California distributor and selling drugs to an undercover officer six times between September 2012 and January 2013.Accordi...
Stephen Coats, executive director of the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP) and a longtime global worker rights activist, died yesterday morning in his sleep. In 1987, Coats founded the U.S./Guatemala Labor Education Project, which later became USLEAP.
A former judge in Kaufman County, Texas, who lost his job when he was convicted of theft says he was questioned by agents investigating the double slaying of a district attorney and his wife.Eric Williams, who served as a county justice of the peace before his conviction, said he did not mind investigators questioning him as they follow every possible lead in the brazen killings that have chilled ...
They say never to cry over spilled milk, but motorists headed for Los Angeles on busy Interstate 5 Tuesday night very well might have.Two tractor-trailers, one of them a tanker loaded with milk, collided on the interstate, which serves as California's main north-south artery, just before 9 p.m. near Santa Clarita, police said.The accident and accompanying milk spill closed three of the four southb...
Strong majorities of Americans say they favor stricter gun laws, including an assault-weapons ban and universal background checks for private gun sales, according to a new national Morning Joe/Marist poll.Six in 10 respondents – including 83 percent of Democrats, 43 percent of gun owners and 37 percent of Republicans – believe that the laws covering gun sales should be stricter.This figure is virt...
CHICAGO -- Three men wearing women's clothes hit an upscale store in Chicago's fashionable Oak Street shopping district on Tuesday, and the store manager says it's not the first time.In fact, nearly a half dozen Oak Street merchants, including Jimmy Choo, Moncler and Barneys, have been hit, mostly in broad daylight.In Tuesday's heist, an employee of Furla says she knew something was up almost imme...
NEWARK, N.J. -- Rutgers said it would reconsider its decision to retain basketball coach Mike Rice after video footage aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players during practice and yelling gay slurs at them.The video prompted sharp criticism from Gov. Chris Christie and NBA star LeBron James. The head of the New Jersey Assembly called for Rice to be fired.Athletic director ...
A family is asking questions after a 24-year-old man died following a oral surgeon's operation to remove his wisdom teeth late last month.Marek Lapinski, of Murrieta, Calif., went into cardiac arrest during the common surgery, according to medical records provided by a friend of the family.Lapinski died three days after the March 21 surgery at a clinic run by Dr. Steven Paul in Temecula, Calif...
